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Maoists threaten to kill Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, police register case

The poster, signed by the “Kerala chapter of Naxalbari”, accused Vijayan of failing the adivasis and threatened to cut his head off.

Published on: Apr 27, 2018, 17:10:23 IST
Indo Asian News Service, Thrissur | By
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Maoists on Friday issued a poster calling for death to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, saying he has failed the adivasis.

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (PTI)
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (PTI)

An officer from Pazhayannur police station near Thrissur, bordering Palakkad district, said the poster was stuck at a workshop. It read: “Vijayan’s head will be cut off.”

Police have initiated a probe. The poster was reportedly issued by the “Kerala chapter of Naxalbari”.

The contents of the poster touches upon the custodial torture and later death of a youth and the beating to death of an adivasi youth by a group of people near a forest area.

SR Sreejit, 26, who was taken into police custody in connection with the suicide of a 52-year-old CPI-M sympathiser, died in a hospital on April 9 allegedly after he was beaten up in custody.

In February, a mentally ill adivasi man, Madhu, died after he was assaulted by a mob in Palakkad district.

 
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